This week’s CrystEngSelects

11 Nov 2010

Here is this week’s selection of advanced articles of interest to crystal engineers from across the RSC journals.

Articles are chosen from:
ChemComm,
CrystEngComm,
Dalton Transactions,
Journal of Materials Chemistry,
New Journal of Chemistry,
Nanoscale,
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.

Highly charged supramolecular oligomers based on the dimerization of corannulene tetraanion

David Eisenberg, Jennifer M. Quimby, Edward A. Jackson, Lawrence T. Scott and Roy Shenhar

Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03965A, Communication

Towards an environmentally-friendly laboratory: dimensionality and reactivity in the mechanosynthesis of metal–organic compounds

Vjekoslav Štrukil, László Fábián, David G. Reid, Melinda J. Duer, Graham J. Jackson, Mirjana Eckert-Maksić and Tomislav Friščić

Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03822A, Communication

From tectons to luminescent supramolecular ionic liquid crystals

Pierre Dechambenoit, Sylvie Ferlay, Bertrand Donnio, Daniel Guillon and Mir Wais Hosseini

Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03970E, Communication

Metal–organic framework membranes fabricated via reactive seeding

Yaoxin Hu, Xueliang Dong, Jiangpu Nan, Wanqin Jin, Xiaoming Ren, Nanping Xu and Young Moo Lee

Chem. Commun., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03927F, Communication

Temperature dependent selective gas sorption of the microporous metal-imidazolate framework [Cu(L)] [H₂L = 1,4-di(1H-imidazol-4-yl)benzene]

Shui-Sheng Chen, Min Chen, Satoshi Takamizawa, Man-Sheng Chen, Zhi Su and Wei-Yin Sun

Chem. Commun., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC04085A, Communication

Design synthesis and photocatalytic activity of a novel lilac-like silver-vanadate hybrid solid based on dicyclic rings of [V₄O₁₂]⁴⁻ with {Ag₇}⁷⁺ cluster

Yan Hu, Fang Luo and Fangfang Dong

Chem. Commun., 2011, Advance Article

DOI: 10.1039/C0CC02965C, Communication

Dynamic microporous indium(III)-4,4′-oxybis(benzoate) framework with high selectivity for the adsorption of CO₂ over N₂

Yan-Xi Tan, Fei Wang, Yao Kang and Jian Zhang

Chem. Commun., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC04095A, Communication

Single-crystal to single-crystal transformation of 1D coordination polymer via photochemical [2+2] cycloaddition reaction

Dong Liu, Ni-Ya Li and Jian-Ping Lang

Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00931H, Communication

Unique 3D self-penetrating Co^II and Ni^II coordination frameworks with a new (4⁴.6¹⁰.8) network topology

Dong-Sheng Li, Feng Fu, Jun Zhao, Ya-Pan Wu, Miao Du, Kun Zou, Wen-Wen Dong and Yao-Yu Wang

Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00900H, Communication

Assembly of titanium embedded polyoxometalates with unprecedented structural features

Thomas McGlone, Laia Vilà-Nadal, Haralampos N. Miras, De-Liang Long, Josep M. Poblet and Leroy Cronin

Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01327G, Paper

Pentacobalt(II) cluster based pcu network exhibits both magnetic slow-relaxation and hysteresis behaviour

Sheng Hu, Jun-Liang Liu, Zhao-Sha Meng, Yan-Zhen Zheng, Yanhua Lan, Annie K. Powell and Ming-Liang Tong

Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01062F, Communication

Enantiocontrolled solid-state photodimerizations via a chiral sulfonamidecinnamic acid

Kraig A. Wheeler, Joshua D. Wiseman and Rebecca C. Grove

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00516A, Communication

Synthesis of anisometric KNbO₃ and K_0.5Na_0.5NbO₃ single crystals by chemical conversion of non-perovskite templates

Francesco Madaro, Julian R. Tolchard, Yingda Yu, Mari-Ann Einarsrud and Tor Grande

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00414F, Paper

Single crystals of aspirin form II: crystallisation and stability

Andrew D. Bond, Katarzyna A. Solanko, Simon Parsons, Sascha Redder and Roland Boese

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00588F, Communication

Supramolecular architectures of cadmium(II)-orotate complexes containing water clusters

Okan Z. Yeşilel, Hakan Erer and Orhan Büyükgüngör

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00308E, Paper

Monodispersed mesoporous SBA-15 with novel morphologies: controllable synthesis and morphology dependence of humidity sensing

Yongheng Zhu, Hui Li, Jiaqiang Xu, Hao Yuan, Jingjie Wang and Xinxin Li

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00570C, Communication

Surprising robustness of a unit cell: isomorphism in caesium 18-crown[6] complexes with aromatic polycarboxylate anions

Dario Braga, Simone D’Agostino and Fabrizia Grepioni

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00363H, Paper

A novel NbO-type framework constructed from Dawson-like tungstobismuthate and copper complex fragments

Bin Wang, Guang-Feng Hou, Rui-Qi Meng, Li-Hua Bi, Bao Li and Li-Xin Wu

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00327A, Paper

Crystal structure of spherical aromatic amide: pseudopolymorphs and formation of infinite water cluster in the channel structure

Hyuma Masu, Yuko Sagara, Fumiaki Imabeppu, Hiroaki Takayanagi, Kosuke Katagiri, Masatoshi Kawahata, Masahide Tominaga, Hiroyuki Kagechika, Kentaro Yamaguchi and Isao Azumaya

CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00301H, Communication

Lightly doped single crystalline porous Si nanowires with improved optical and electrical properties

Huihui Chen, Rujia Zou, Haihua Chen, Na Wang, Yangang Sun, Qiwei Tian, Jianghong Wu, Zhigang Chen and Junqing Hu

J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02476G, Paper

Liquid crystalline phthalocyanine–fullerene dyads

Mine Ince, M. Victoria Martínez-Díaz, Joaquín Barberá and Tomás Torres

J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02420A, Paper

A new route to porous monolithic organic frameworks via cyclotrimerization

Marcus Rose, Nicole Klein, Irena Senkovska, Christian Schrage, Philipp Wollmann, Winfried Böhlmann, Bertram Böhringer, Sven Fichtner and Stefan Kaskel

J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02998J, Paper

Controllable and white upconversion luminescence in BaYF₅:Ln³⁺ (Ln = Yb, Er, Tm) nanocrystals

Cuimiao Zhang, Ping’ an Ma, Chunxia Li, Guogang Li, Shanshan Huang, Dongmei Yang, Mengmeng Shang, Xiaojiao Kang and Jun Lin

J. Mater. Chem., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02948C, Paper